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Elizabeth Howell

Elizabeth Howell is, with Nicholas Booth, the author of "The Search for Life on Mars: The Greatest Scientific Detective Story of All Time" (Arcade Publishing, 2020).

NASA’s Dawn spacecraft took this image of Ceres’ south polar region on May 17, 2017. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA)

Return to Ceres: This dwarf planet could contain the clues to life’s origins

Elizabeth Howell

Nadir view of the Martian South Pole. (Getty Images / Stocktrek Images)

Did it snow on Mars? New research suggests ancient Red Planet precipitation was a lot like Earth

Elizabeth Howell

Render of Planet Earth. (DrPixel / Getty Images)

A new NASA mission will make it a lot easier to predict space weather

Elizabeth Howell

Illustration of vapour plumes erupting from the surface of Enceladus, Saturns sixth largest moon, created on July 26, 2018. (Illustration by Tobias Roetsch/Future Publishing via Getty Images)

An icy new map of Antarctica could help direct the search for alien life

Elizabeth Howell

A footprint left on the surface of the moon by one of the Apollo 11 astronauts during their historic lunar EVA, 20th July 1969. (Photo by Space Frontiers/Getty Images)

Moon dust could be dangerous. We may have figured out a new way of handling it

Elizabeth Howell

Photomicrograph Of Martian Meteorite Alh84001 (Getty Images)

The 24-year-old mystery of whether a Martian meteorite harbored microbial life is still unsolved

Nicholas Booth, Elizabeth Howell